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Pastorale 1, 2 & 3 : for harp and multimedia / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis

Publisher's number: 23970
Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Harp
Scoring: hrp soundtrack (concert video ad lib)
Remarks: Pastorale 1,2 and 3 for harp, soundtrack & video ad lib. were composed in the summer of 2015 for Lavinia Meijer, with support from the Dutch Fund for Performing Arts. Pastorale 1 has 2 movements. Pastorale 2 is a variation of the first one, but much shorter. Pastorale 3 has just a soundtrack, containing a groove of bloating sheep.
Duration: 14'00"
Number of players: 1
Year of composition: 2015-2018
Status: fully digitized (real-time delivery)

Author(s):
Veldhuis, Jacob ter (Composer)
Description:
With Pastorale 1,2 and 3 I intended to write a piece with sheep language in a more detailed and specific way. So far I did not succeed in recording suitable grooves of sheep talk.
I believe that the bleating of sheep could have been the musical inspiration for early polyphony in Europe. I discovered that the members of a herd seem to be bloating in a certain ‘herd’-key.
In the middle ages, monks inevitably listened to animals all day long. Ans monks were the first composers! Could they not have been inspired by the bloating of sheep outside? Of course, there were pigs, horses, cows and chicken around, but the bloating of sheep comes closest to the human voice…

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Score Download to Newzik (A4), 24 pages EUR 15.68
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Hardcopy, normal size (A4), 24 pages EUR 31.36
Multimedia Download EUR 30.00
CD/DVD EUR 40.00